It looks like Oklahoma County Commissioner Myles – or maybe it’s Miles – Davidson should expand his use of ChatGPT!
Earlier this month, we wrote an article lampooning the Commissioner for copying and pasting generic AI content onto social media and pretending they were his own words.
After our article, Myles’s use of AI to explain complex land swap issues that financially benefit his associates and supporters seems to have slowed down, and he’s now primarily using the tool to share weather forecasts.
That being said, he still made sure to use AI – which you can verify here – to share his heartfelt thoughts on Memorial Day:
That’s sweet. Nothing lets fallen soldiers and their families know that “we see you, we honor you, and we thank you” quite like copying and pasting words that were thrown together in seconds by an emotionless digital neural network that’s been trained to generate predictive text, so that the author can spend more time manning the grill at the cookout.
Let freedom ring, huh?
While Myles is using artificial intelligence to briefly pause, reflect, and remember dead soldiers and their loved ones on a solemn holiday, one area where the technology could add some real benefit is on official county business.
Earlier this week, an Ogle Mole forwarded me this letter that Myles sent to the embattled Oklahoma Department of Mental Health asking them to return some of the money the county chipped in toward the now-abandoned replacement for Griffin Memorial Hospital.
The letter is written in generic legal prose that any normal product of an Oklahoma public school would have a hard time following.
If Myles had run it through ChatGPT first, he might have improved the syntax, boosted readability—and at the very least—caught the part where he misspelled his own name:
Yep, the guy misspelled his own name in a letter to the Oklahoma Department of Mental Health asking them to give the county some money back.
I’m not a legal scholar – and/or an unlicensed therapist who moonlights as an accredited one – but does that void the entire request, and mean the ODMHSAS gets to lose or waste the money instead?
Hey, maybe that missing $25 million wasn’t lost — it’s just earmarked for counties that submit refund requests under an alias!
Anyway, I know we live in idiocratic times where voters seem to value ineptitude and futility above all else when casting their ballots, but is it too much to ask politicians to at least spell their name correctly in documents that conduct official county business?
Yes, the “Y” in Myles takes some getting used to, but you’d think after living a good half-century or so on this planet, he’d figure that out!
Then again, maybe we should be proud that he – or his AI software – spelled “commissioner” correctly. The root of that word has always been a little bit tricky to those who work in state government. As the folks at the Corporation Commission have proven, the word has always been a bit tricky:
Stay with The Last Ogle. We’ll keep you advised.
